Dali Temple Small Dining Room

  Chapter 180 Bamboo Rice (3)

  Where did you find the cook? Yu Jijiu stroked his beard, coughed lightly, and said, "I borrowed it from the Yamen in front."

  The front Yamen? All the celebrities were startled for a moment: Isn't the front of the Imperial College...

"Then there is such a chef in the public kitchen of Dali Temple?" One of the celebrities wondered, "I went to Dali Temple when I passed by Chang'an a few years ago, and the standard of the public kitchen is only mediocre, the same as that in restaurants outside. There is no comparison!"

"It's not just incomparable?" Another famous person said, "A friend of mine came to Chang'an at the beginning of the year, and when he returned, he told me about the public chef of Dali Temple, saying that the official chef of Dali Temple is called Quanjingcheng. The cook of the Dali Temple avoided it, and said that since the original chef of Dali Temple was sent away and beheaded by their own people in Dali Temple, the food tasted like chewing wax, how could it be so short in a few months..."

A celebrity on the side couldn't help nodding when he heard this: "It's rare, but it's not impossible to choose such a skilled cook from the people. Compared with this, it's the fact that the cook is willing to work as a cook in the public kitchen of Dali Temple." It's a miracle!"

Speaking of this, someone squinted at Yu Jijiu, holding chopsticks with chopsticks slobbering chicken entrance, and said, "Brother Shinan, why don't you think of a way to get someone to the Imperial College? Being a public cook in your Imperial College is comparable to being in Dali Temple , It’s much better to face the group of Dali Temple officials who have arrested people without knowing when!”

   These words can be regarded as hitting people's sore spots! Yu Jijiu couldn't help holding his forehead, and sighed: "Hey! Don't talk about it! Every time I talk about this, it makes people sad!"

   It was really a mistake, if not, Master Wen would have gone to their Guozijian public chef! But it doesn't matter now, the chefs of the left and right Dali Temple are right in front of them, and they used to take a walk before eating.

A group of people were chatting happily, but Wang He on the other side was rare and silent, as if he was really hungry. After looking at the pleasing "bamboo boat", he picked up a spoon to scoop up a spoonful of rice and sent it to his mouth middle.

  The celebrity who came to his case to see it, hurriedly asked Wang He: "How is it? Is it delicious?"

  Wang He squinted his eyes while eating, and spit out two words: "Shang Ke!"

The evaluation of the word "Shang Ke" sounds a bit unsatisfactory, but since I have been an old friend for many years, I know Wang He well, and I know that the evaluation of the word "Shang Ke" from the mouth of this talented Wang is not ordinary, so "Adequate" in his terms can be said to be an extremely high evaluation.

Therefore, as soon as he heard "Shang Ke", the old friend's eyes lit up immediately, looking at the remaining "bamboo boat" that had not opened the "bamboo window", he said to Wang He: "Open the other one to have a look! "

Wang He squinted at him, although he didn't respond to him, but the next moment, he stretched out his hand and opened the "bamboo window" as he said: in the bamboo boat, the white rice grains and the red beans are intertwined. Mixed together, red and white intersect, it looks extremely pleasing to the eye.

   "Wonderful!" The celebrity just glanced at it and couldn't help clapping his hands and praised, "It's beautiful!"

"It's not only beautiful, but also very fragrant!" Wang He said, took another spoonful of the bamboo rice mixed with red beans, dipped it in the crystal sugar from the small plate beside the bamboo boat, and put it into his mouth. He narrowed his eyes and said repeatedly, "Good! Excellent!"

Because it is fired in a bamboo tube, the fragrance of bamboo has already been mixed with rice grains, red beans and bacon. I feel bored, but the more I eat, the more I can't stop.

  Watching Wang He put the rice in the bamboo tube into his mouth one spoon after another, everyone was so excited by the sight, they all followed Wang He's example and asked for the rice to be served first. They wanted to taste the rice in the bamboo tube.

   Those who like salty taste prefer the salty, fresh and fragrant bacon, especially the smell of meat with smoked pine branches, which makes people spoon after spoon, and can't stop at all.

   Those who prefer sweet taste will love the taste of red bean crispy sand with sticky soft glutinous rice mixed with the fragrance of bamboo, dipped in fine sugar, the layer-by-layer sweet fragrance is irresistible.

  It is obviously a staple food to fill the stomach after eating more than half of the food and wine, but it makes people want to eat it. Yu Jijiu couldn't laugh or cry, but fortunately, although he was reluctant to part with the rice in the bamboo tube in the bamboo boat, he was still thinking about the next meal in his heart, so everyone let go first and continued to taste the other dishes.

  Wen Mingtang was very busy in the back kitchen with his people. Because it was a banquet dish, compared with the usual public kitchen dishes, Wen Mingtang also made some decorations.

  Put the radish flower carved like a peony on the plate, Wen Mingtang nodded, and waved his hand to signal the servant beside him to bring the dish up.

So busy now, the main course is almost served. For the last dessert, Yu Jijiu chose Wen Mingtang's mung bean cake with mint leaves and ice powder covered with fermented glutinous rice balls. This has been prepared in advance, and Wen Mingtang heaves a sigh of relief , handed over the back kitchen to the boys on the side for the time being, and was going to sit down and rest in the gazebo on the side.

  Just before she walked into the gazebo and sat down, she heard a voice ringing after herself.

   "But... but Miss Mingtang?"

  The voice was a little strange, and there was some hesitation in the tone, but she still called her name accurately.

  Wen Mingtang frowned, probably because of a habit born after staying in Dali Temple for so long, instinctively thought about the people on Lishan Mountain at this time, and a name quickly came to mind.

   Xunzhou! The favorite student that Wen Xuance recruited not long before his death was changed to the one who was under Wang He's sect.

  She turned around and looked at the person who came, her eyes unconsciously carried the usual scrutiny of Lin Fei and Liu Yuan.

  At the age of eighteen or nineteen, the age matches!

   With a delicate appearance, since Xunzhou's elder sister can be called the king of Yu, she must be beautiful. With such a beautiful elder sister, my younger brother will probably not be ugly. This appearance is also right.

Next is the sachet hanging from his waist. On the surface of the sachet is embroidered with the word 'Moxiang' written in big seal script. If it is a gift from a woman, it is likely that it will not be written in such a "dignified and solemn" script as big seal script. The embroidered characters, therefore, should be the sachets bought in Xiangzhai.

   What a coincidence! There is a time-honored brand in Xiangzhai called Mo Xiangzhai, which seems to be very famous among literati. She has seen Wei Fu and Bai Zhu wearing Mo Xiangzhai's sachet, and the location of Mo Xiangzhai's head office is It is Shuozhou, the most famous in Shuozhou.

   After a rough scan, the excited young man in front of him can match up with Xun Zhou, and it seems that he is probably that Xun Zhou.

Excited Xun Zhou met Wen Mingtang's scrutinizing gaze, and couldn't help being startled. He suddenly thought that he had met an official from Dali Temple, and was about to explain his identity when he heard Wen Mingtang say: "Xunzhou?"

   Xun Zhou no longer needs to explain his identity: "..."

   After a moment of silence, he nodded and said "yes". Although he was glad that the girl in front of him didn't hate him because of his switch to Wang He, it still made people uncomfortable to look at him like this.

"Since you were able to find this place, you must have inquired about me." Compared to Xunzhou's uneasiness, the girl's reaction was normal. She looked at Xunzhou in front of her and said calmly, "When you know me Not long after being released from the palace, I don't know anything about my father. So, why are you looking for me?"

  (end of this chapter)